Featured Finds Thread

Topaz in sterling is generally fairly modern and not expensive. Very pretty though. The Bohemian garnet brooch is an absolute winner, as is the portrait one.

 

Not many jools lately, but I liked this for peanuts.

Older clasp, quartz or similar.

 

That and the 14k red garnet ring

 

Marjorie-Cap Cod looks like a treasure chest.Sure looks like a beautiful place.Gotta be some hellaciously fine estates there.

 

Actually it has been tough finding nice, old items for some time now. I got the 14k ring from a scrapper I visit regularly. And a lot of the other things, like the garnet pin and portrait pin came from a weekly pickers outdoor flea market that opened for the season in April. I consider myself very lucky to have that market to go to during the warmer weather!

 

@Marie Forjan - Cookie jar - Anchor Hocking Princess

 

Wowzer!! Love all the bling!!!

 

I know what you mean about the Slows. I think last weekend may have been "the big one" here. This weekend there's one community tag sale. There's also a hoarder clean-out, but between the stairs, no a/c and it being in a low-income neighborhoold...pass. Besides, I know the guy who's doing it and he's a jewelry dealer. Anything worth buying is already back at the store.

 

Think they make a cream for that now.

But both necklaces will gestalt well when worn; great pieces when taken as wholes & we've all seen cameos that are worse. 1930s, I would guess.

What is the back of the portrait miniature like?

 

Funny Bronwen

Here is the back:

Thank you bercrystal, much appreciated!

 

That's been around a few!

 

Unbelievable that this wasn't spotted as a quality piece before you got to it. Must be meant for you. Can you tell what material the miniature is painted on? Sometimes it is ivory.

 

Was surprised to find a bit of sterling in the thrift store for the first time in a couple years. Just a plain baby cup and a modern teaspoon but sterling is sterling. They were packaged with a silverplate sauce spoon, a pair of wood handled 3 tine forks, and an old cheap egg beater. Go figure.

 

Gotta love when that happens!

 

This spoon was in a free bin at a garage sale

Not finding a meaning for the I by the standing critter.

 

The "critter" may be the Berlin bear city mark from before 1884. The I would be for the assayer.

https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884.html

 

Bingbingbing! Free silver for the win! All I found in the free bins were USB cables and some plastic cups.

 

I had a good Fri-Sat, pics will follow. Who stops at a yard sale at 11:30? Not me usually, but I am glad I did. It was in the 90s here, no breeze, half the normal amount of vendors at my flea market, but glad I went. Posting a few questions on the jewelry board now.

Silver spoon in a free pile? Wowzer.

 

wow you all have been picking some great finds.

Here an estate sale can be a moving sale, someone died sale, people are going to assisted living etc. Most are indoor. No hard and fast rules. In the words of Forrest Gump.. you never know what you are going to get. LOL

Yard sale, garage sales, tag sales in general are outside. They can be filled with junk or some can have some treasures but they don't care what it sells for, they simply want it gone. Others think they have the Hope Diamond and price things so high that no one in their right mind would buy it.

I went to a moving sale today that was outside. The guy was a collector and had various items. Most were in rough shape. But the shaker I bought was nice and I needed it to for my pepper shaker (so I would have a pair) and the salt shakers is harder to find IMHO in this HA pattern.

 

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The wowzer was the $12 lady's watch. A $25 piece in 14 grams of 14K.

The spoon polished well.